And how am I to face the odds Of man’s bedevilment and God’s? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
A. E. HOUSMANOh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they’re in trouble And I am not.
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The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Tomorrow, more’s the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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A moment’s thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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To justify God’s ways to man.
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Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame’s to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I’ll be there.
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